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...year as a state has been made sweeter by an economic recovery that has given it one of the lowest unemployment rates in the nation. After its 1980s slump, Iowa lost one of its congressional seats--the five it now claims are the state's smallest delegation since the 1850s. A politically conservative state, it is perhaps no coincidence that John Wayne was born in Iowa and Ronald Reagan once broadcast from there. And its overwhelmingly Republican delegation in Congress could become more so if Jim Lightfoot can unseat native Hawkeye and lone Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin...
When questioned on the relevance of his own party to the American political process, Stowe cites the gains made by the new Republican party in the 1850s and 1860s as an example worthy of emulation...
...President and the Speaker of the House, plus the possibility of an imminent recession--each of which in its own right would be enough to shred this idyllic scenario. The division between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress has been, since the current party system began in the 1850s, the country's least productive political arrangement. Splits may work for champagne, or maybe bananas, but they often don't make for good government in Washington...
Exciting stuff but almost certainly fictional. Traill, who has studied Schliemann for nearly 20 years, first became skeptical of the archaeologist's veracity in 1978, when he found an eyewitness account Schliemann wrote about a San Francisco fire. Schliemann lived in California in the early 1850s, amassing a fortune as a banker during the gold rush (he also made millions as an indigo trader and a sometimes shady profiteer in Russia during the Crimean War). But the fire occurred while Schliemann was out of town, and a month earlier than the report said...
...seen as a true precursor of Impressionism. Many of his lithographs and etchings of landscape have the same vitality. Full of wind and weather, they show pleasure in the mark for its own sake--Corot was a terrific scribbler at his best--and some are boldly experimental. In the 1850s Corot was among the first artists to explore the so-called cliche-verre, a way of printmaking that entailed covering a sheet of glass with opaque collodion, scratching the design through it, then placing it over photosensitized paper and exposing it to light--an early hybrid of etching and photography...